Into Sparks

mel
discovered this band when they had an Australian tour so I gave it a listen. this is a charming psychedelic noise rock, with sultry vocals and groovy bass lines. love the surprising turns and progressions in most tracks in this album. nice to hear this kind of style from a band from China.

about

Crawling with so many ideas, effects, and layers that it takes a half dozen listens to begin to sink in properly, Dream Can’s fiery, flickering first album will make itself immediately at home in your gray matter. The young Shanghai band name checks all-time psych greats like Acid Mothers Temple among their influences, and that remains apparent from the building space-noise of album opener “Cheap Cheap Time I Live, Money Money Saves Me,” to the dreamlike tape-loop reverie of instrumental number “Gooo,” to the mercurial, virtuosic guitar work on “Kill the Man,” the stunning climax of this enthralling debut.

Dream Can has a softer side on Into Sparks, too, showing tenderness and emotional depth on less scorched tracks like “But I Am a Lonely Girl” and the plaintive closer, “In The Rickety Time” What’s audible throughout the album is the band’s originality, their dedicated and delicate approach to songwriting that has set them apart from their peers in four short years together.

Dream Can’s sound and lyrics are built of chaos, fractured time, the ultimate inability (or refusal) to disentangle dream from reality. But on Into Spark, these talented young artists take the confusion of the age and turn it into something a few steps short of nihilism, something that makes the listener curious to keep going, to hear more. In the words of vocalist and guitarist A Re, “It’s not fear, it's the joy of being free on the edge of the darkness.”

snowflakes come out from a TV
oh the mice are having a party
discard all your cheap sorrows
let’s go dance
let’s go dance
let’s go dance

cheap cheap time I live
money money saves me
cheap cheap time I live
money money saves me
I had sold all my fairy tale
and all my sweet dreams

dream or truth can’t be made out
dream or truth can’t be made out
dream or truth can’t be made out
let’s have fun
let’s have fun
let’s have fun

I wanna share you in this moment
I wanna share you in this weakness
discard all your cheap sorrows
let’s have fun
let’s have fun
let’s have fun

dream or truth can’t be made out
dream or truth can’t be made out
dream or truth can’t be made out
let’s go dance
let’s go dance
let’s go dance

snowflakes come out from a TV
oh the mice are having a party
discard all your cheap sorrows
let’s go dance
let’s go dance
let’s go dance

Track Name: Why Should I Wait

time is running out
this crazy band’s on
shaking the fucking minutes
and let it bang bang bang

why should I wait for you
why should I wait for you

time is running out
my heart’s burning now
people come and cross
you let me alone

why should I wait for you
why should I wait for you
why should I wait for you
why should I wait wait for you

why should I wait for you
why should
why should I wait for you
why should
why should I wait for you
why should
why should I wait for you
why should

my heart’s burning
my body is still
my consciousness flow
my youth passing on the way now
why should I wait for

why should I wait for you
why should I wait for you
why should I wait for you
why should I wait for you
why should I wait for you…

woo…
my youth is passing why should I wait for you
my youth is passing why should I wait for you

Track Name: Time Is Fractured

By the time all you talk
Sound gets loud
Everyone fight for their own possibilities
No one
Can be heard
No one
Can be heard

By the time all you talk
Division has started
Universe Turing to Schrodinger's Cat
It's worse than before
It’s worse than before

By the time getting late
All the generations fade
No one compromises
All you bogged down
It's worse than the past
It’s worse than the past

Till the time turning to infinity
Did you get more
Or you feel more lost
I'm broken in silence
I'm broken in silence

Once time talk to you
Once time talk to you
To you to you
Time's talk
woo…

Now you share me with your secrets
Now you share me with your time
Now you share me with your secrets
Now you share me with your time

It’s the deadline for you to come back to us
It’s the deadline for you to come back to us
It’s the deadline for you to come back to us
It’s the deadline for you to come back to us

Once time talk to you
Once time talk to you
To you to you
Time's talk
woo… Now you share me with your secrets
Now you share me with your time
Now you share me with your secrets
Now you share me with your time

Track Name: But I Am A Lonely Girl

no one’s gone to save me
thus I still waiting
everybody’s laughing
but I have no feeling
I’d rather to hide
my real emotion
when the fear comes to me
loneliness protects me
ah

the boy that I love more
never come for me
the first sight I saw him
nice girls between him
so I had to wait stand
and never in
living fast and die young
bad girls
do it well

but I am a lonely girl
and you don’t with me
nice girls surround you and laughing
oh you never care about me